Boring talk shows seldom make history.
And what better place than the living room to be your eccentric best?
Farts, angry walkouts, jokes and non-jokes, personal disclosures nothing is off-limits on talk shows.
Scroll on to relive some of television’s most notorious moments that unfolded on-air!
Yup, you know the one we’re talking about.
But the interview is memorable for everything but.
“He’s gone.
The boy is gone,” his antics prompted the legendary talk show host to declare (perHuffPost).
Except Gifford didn’t seem to know Dolman had died of cancer in 2010.
She asked the “SNL” icon: “How many years for you guys?”
Short replied, “36 years,” politely playing down the obvious gaffe.
The host then went on to inquire why he was still in love with his wife.
“I’m cute,” he answered in all honesty.
Despite the mounting mess, Short deftly and gracefully maneuvered his way through the uncomfortable interview.
It’s not for nothing thatVanity Faircalled Short “the funniest, nicest, best of them all.”
And we couldn’t agree more!
“The constant whispering, just shut the f**k up, dude.
I’m trying to find something real,” Phoenix is heardsnappingat someone off-camera.
Larry from the outtake was revealed to be cinematographer Lawrence Sher.
One of those apparently belonged to Tyra Banks.
“I want you to bite me, Robert.
… On my neck,” Banksdemandedof a visibly baffled Pattinson, who was then just 22.
No matter the polarity in verdicts, the moment sticks out for being a memorable television event!
You know the one we’re talking about the one who pushes your buttons like no one else.
For television speaker Meghan McCain, that foe was Joy Behar.
The women’s political differences were a constant on the long-running daytime talk show (perPeople).
The Hot Topics segment was heating up during an episode when Behar snapped at McCain for interrupting her.
The conservative co-hostremarkedwith a laugh, “You missed me so much.
You missed fighting with me.”
Call it provocation or brutal honesty, Behar replied: “I did not miss you.
Now,Aniston’s golden hairis the stuff of legend and the universal object of envy.
But even that hard fact fails to explain Letterman’s bizarre reaction to it in 1998.
It’s safe to say Letterman’s legacy has not aged well.
Did Whoopi Goldberg fart on live television?
That may or may not have happened.
In 2011, things got a little too windy (sorry, not sorry!)
Actor Claire Danes was speaking when a toot rang out on stage.
“Excuse me, I think I just blew a little frog outta there!”
Goldberg, with her impeccable comic timing, admitted, owning the awkward moment.
ABC later cleared the air (get it?)
saying that it was “all in good fun.”
“I make funnies.
I don’t fart on air for real!”
“How was the party?
The actor went on to tell a speechless DeGeneres that she wasn’t sure the host liked even her.
This amazing realization Jimmy Fallon had about Nicole Kidman
Everybody likes Jimmy Fallon even Nicole Kidman!
Except, Fallon didn’t know just how much until the Hollywood star told him.
“You’re there in a baseball cap and you wouldn’t talk.
For them to be compared to Mickey Mouse would naturally touch a nerve, one would expect.
“We’re getting on like a storm aren’t we Clive?”
Barry Gibb, the oldest of the three, said before storming off the set.
Robin and Maurice Gibb followed.
It’s safe to say the love between them wasn’t deep.
Yup … that happened.
Madonna later remarked that bits of the show were derogatory and that she regretted the whole event.
Ferrara, mirroring the eccentricity of his films, looked thoroughly disinterested, mumbling over O’Brien’s lines.
His odd antics prompted an incredulous O’Brien toremarkat one point: “Is it just me?”
O’Brien also claimed to have been yelled at by Ferrara that night.
Fonda appeared on Kelly’s program in 2017, when the interviewer apparently waded into very personal territory.
The awkwardness was diffused with laughter then but marked the beginning of sourness between the two.
The viral interview drew criticism for Kelly and turned Fonda’s deadpan expression into a popular meme.
Absurdity, especially if it comes from A-listers like Mark Wahlberg, is fun to watch after all.
If you’re able to believe it, Wahlberg even took a brief nap during the chaotic interview.
Wahlberg, on his part, claimed that his capers were pre-planned.
